Month : January 2025

Herbert L. White THE CHARLOTTE POST When Julia Ann McKnight Teamer was born 108 years ago, World War I was raging, Charlotte didn’t provide public education for Black students and women couldn’t vote. Teamer, a longtime education advocate and teacher...

By Dr. Veita Bland Carolina Peacemaker   As we close out this year, it is time to take stock of your health and the progress you’ve made during the year. The next step is not to lament if progress was...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – April Simpkins signed copies of the book she co-authored, or actually completed for her daughter, Cheslie Kryst, in the Thomas J. Boyd Chapel on Shaw’s campus. “By The Time You Read This,” the book’s...

Herbert L. White THE CHARLOTTE POST In 2015, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech was confirmed to have North Carolina roots. At that time, a restored recording of a Nov. 27, 1962, speech at a Rocky Mount...

Courtesy Bennett College Bennett College announced today (Jan. 15) that Suzanne Walsh will be stepping down from her role as President, effective June 30, 2025. Appointed in 2019, President Walsh led the College through an extraordinary era of change and...

By Freda Freeman Correspondent DURHAM – Putting a book in a child’s hand just may keep him from ever picking up a gun. Unrealistic? Farfetched? Not if you ask Durham minister and activist Paul Scott who believes reading can change...

By Ivan Saul Cutler Carolina Peacemaker On New Year’s Day (Jan. 1), former Guilford County Schools’ Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green was sworn in as the new N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction at Haynes-Inman Education Center in Jamestown, N.C. Green was...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Erika Moss admitted she is angry. Thus, she came to the North Carolina State Capitol Building Tuesday – in peace. “I’m learning how to funnel that temper into this work,” Moss said. “That’s what...

By Tracey Morrison, Contributing Writer    FAYETTEVILLE, NC ⸻ Life can be a trip sometimes, but why not make it exciting while we’re here?  That’s the motto that Keith Sykes lives by. Sykes, described as a carefree person, has an...